APO troubles and breakdowns

We'll start with the APO business. The "new" and "improved" APO address we've been given won't accept packages until September 6th, but it is in fact the correct address, in spite of what the US Postal Service may have told some of you. At first I was frustrated with the Postal Service, but then I remembered how efficient and professional the Army is. Meaning that I'm sure that the Army dropped the ball on this one. Oh well, I just don't care.

If any of you want to know what to send, send me a book. I don't need candy, or civilian clothes. Don't need gum, chocolate will melt, in these temperatures a brick can melt! If any of you have a compact stack of clean rags, I know it sounds ridiculous, but we can use them. Now don't everyone send PILES and PILES of rags, but if you throw one or two torn up clean T-shirts, my weapon and vehicle will thank you.

Now about my vehicle.... My truck is sick today. Its fuel injectors have overheated (due to the climate, not poor maintenance) and have consequently messed up the fuel pump. Today it wouldn't go any faster than 50 MPH and so the mechanics are looking at it. I don't even want to think about driving any other truck.

Quite a few explosions around Baghdad today. Didn't see any, but we could hear them all day. Stupid insurgents don't realize that we're not going to leave as long as they keep this up, and we'll just chase them down with more determination (because we want to go home!) and more numbers. It's sort of funny, because if they fire at a truck, we call in a Bradley, and if they fire at that, we bring in tanks, and if they're crazy enough to shoot at the tanks, what the heck, we send in attack helicopters. These people (not the Iraqis but the mostly foreign insurgents) are just not that bright.

More later,
Trey